Myrto (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Myrto (Ancient Greek: Μυρτώ) may refer to one of the following characters:

• Myrto, a possible eponym for the Myrtoan Sea.^[1]
• Myrto, one of the Maenads who followed Dionysus in the Indian War.^[2]
• Myrto, an Amazon and one of the possible mothers of Myrtilus by Hermes.^[3]
• Myrto, daughter of Menoitios of Opus, sister to Patroclus. She had a daughter Eucleia by Heracles.^[4]

Notes

1. Pausanias, 8.14.8
2. Nonnus, 29.270
3. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.752
4. Plutarch, Aristides 20.6

References

• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XVI, Halbband 31, Molatzes-Myssi (1933), s. 1167 (in German)